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Trump Plan to Privatize the VA Disclosed
Parting words from the fired VA Director reveal the Trump plan to privatize (and thus reduce funding for) Veterans' Healthcare: “I believe differences in philosophy deserve robust debate, and solutions should be determined based on the merits [...]
Census Citizenship Question
Trump's Commerce Department is reinstating a citizenship question to the 2020 Census for the first time in 70 years. This is a craven attack on our democracy and a transparent attempt to intimidate immigrant communities and reduce [...]
AZ Ed Funding “a Burning, Heaping Mess”
Arizona funding for education is "a burning, heaping mess." And, that's the description applied by a Republican. State Treasurer (soon to be Trump's head of NASA) Steve DeWit "compared the status of Prop. 123 to telling a person [...]
Democrats Propose Funding for Infrastructure with a Better Tax Plan
#Ever since Republican's crammed their tax bill down Americans' throats at the end of 2017, they have been looking for ways to pay for the $1.5-$2.1 trillion dollar deficit that their new law is projected to create. [...]
Tariffs, Trade Pacts, and Trade Wars
This week Trump announced huge new tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum. He lost his chief economic advisor, Gary Cohn, as a result. More than 100 Republicans in Congress have asked him to reconsider. And, the [...]
Republicans Throw Transportation Safety Out the Window
Rules that transportation safety experts have spent years designing are being tossed out in the Republican Administration's wholesale deconstruction of our federal government. A dozen transportation safety rules under development or already adopted have been repealed, withdrawn, [...]